Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.